CROMWELL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 650, 2 October 1874, Page 3

CROMWELL.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The bazaar and auction in aid of the Church of England will be held this day, at Kidd’s Concert Hall, and should be well patronised. The requirements, taste, and fancy of ail have been amply provided for. The venerable father can find the family bible, the mother the needle and thread, the housemaid the bucket and brush, the sailor the anchor, the soldier the sword, the lover Cupid’s darts, the maid Moore’s Melodies. In fact every description of goods will be there, found and obtained by payment. The never-failing post office will be introduced, and those who have yet to learn love’s gentle ways may experience surprise in the discovery that there is "one heart that beats for him alone.” The fair sex will be present in force, and be must be difficult to please who can resist the touching appeal to “shell outfor a good au l worthy cause. 1 cannot help noticing Mesdamea Kidd and Wright, who have certainly set a praiseworthy example. These ladies have been most indefatigable, and at one time I felt disposed to have them arrested as they " bailed ” one and all “up” to give something. I must also mention Mrs Howe, who has rendered most efficient service. Whatever success attends the bazaar these ladies are certainly entitled to share the credit, as theyliavespared neither time, trouble, or expense to render the affair a genuine and substantial success Other ladies, who may have assisted, need not feel offended at my passing them by, as 1 strongly believe in rendering honor to whom honor is due. The Rev. Joshua Jones lias been most zealous in his efforts, and deserves such a recognition as the future will in all probability disclose. Money is wanted, and those who can spare a pound, or even a shilling or two, would do well to favor the hall with a visit, as, if they behave themselves, they need entertain no fear of being knocked down by the auctioneer’s hammer, to the highest bidder, but their money will be accepted witli thanks.

Almost weekly it becomes my duty to chronicle some accident or another, and until an unfortunate breaks his leg, or sustains some other serious injury it is not probable that I shall ever bo hard up for a local. Our civic body aro determined t > earn a lasting reputation ; and, however commendable that determination may be, there is, nevertheless, an end and termination to every indulgence, and a time when excusable neglect deserves special notice. Nearly three years ago Murray street was formed, and a liberal sum voted for its construction, or rather cutting, which was not to exceed 1 Sleet, since which time, though rates have been regularly collected, nothing has iieen'done to keep this main thoroughfare in repair. The bank was formerly about six feet high, and through the weather and the constant traffic this street, or more correctly speaking lane, has been narrowed down to 12 nr 1-t feet, rendering it an impossibility for two ordinary-sired vehicles to pass abreast, and this was most unmistakably proved on Tuesday last when two waggons snet, the one coming up and the other going down. The one driven by Mr James Smith crossed off the ridge of the street, and in endeavoring to ascend the al* most perpendicular side some corrugated on shifted, and the waggon was thereupon capsized From the street to Mr

Jenour’a fence there is a space of level ground, which is always blocked up with carts and carriages, among them being vehicles belonging to some of our respected Councillors. It is well-known that there is a bye-law passed by the Council prohibiting this, and doubtless, if our civic dignities were not among the transgressors, the vigilant officers of the law would have brought them to book long since, although it might seem hard to make a worthy J. P. inflict a fine upon others for an offence daily committed by himself; hut this should not commend a brother Councillor to indulgence and exemption from legal punishment. Numerous complaints have been made respecting this street, and only at the last election one of the then candidates and now

elected Councillors distinctly pledged himself to see that “something was done,” yet / meeting after meeting passes over, and the ratepayers are doomed like the look-out at

the mast-head to gaze wistfully from the bleak mound upon the gentle and more favored folk below. If these vehicles had been out of the road there can be no doubt but that the accident would not have happened, as it was the attempt to avoid touching a Councillor’s trap that resulted in the capsize of Mr Smith’s waggon. Dr Carr has been entertaining the Cromwell people with his seances and lectures, which have, in every sense but the financial, Proved an entire success. On Sunday last be delivered a most interesting and philosophical lecture on “The Grave and After,” but it would be an abortion on my part to attempt, in a limited space, to furnish anything approaching a synopsis thereof. It was a masterly discourse, and treated in a liberal, sound, and comprehensive manner, denoting care, study, and attention, and was no less remarkable for its choice and elegant language than the highly eloquent style in which it was delivered. It was generally felt and expressed that an intellectual treat seldom offered had been

generously given, and for my own part I felt distressed that there was not more of >t. A collects n took place, which was handed over to the Church of England Building Committee. On the following Monday the Doctor lectured on “ SelfCultare,” but owing to the unfavorable state of the elements the attendance was not so numerous as it otherwise would have hoen. Some gentlemen, phrenologically considered, did not receive the most flattering enconiums, and the subjects brought under the influence occasioned considerable fnn by their respective performances. Mr Max Gall, chemist, delivered a recitation in the German language, and it i» no exaggera-

tion to say that it was the best and most finished that has been given in Cromwell for some time past; indeed, this gentleman has no occasion to feel ashamed of his undoubted ability in this respect. The popular rumor that the Doctor is a “ humbug ” has received undoubted refutation, as the subjects were business people and tradesmen whose characters were too well-known and respected to leave the slightest ground for imagining they would either, directly or indirectly lend themselves to the Doctor nr any o'her person. On V/cdiiesday eveniru the seances closed with success, the house being well filled. If talent is entitled to command respect, and secure general esteem, the Doctor is certainly entitled to both.